YA in high resolution
YA in Spanish or French in high resolution
480p viewer recordings of the entirety of Young Americans (YA) as broadcast in 480p in Spain, gratingly dubbed in Spanish, on TeleMadrid under the title, Jóvenes rebeldes, in the summer of 2001, can be viewed in 42 partial-episode clips on the YouTube channel, "naypasedeNash," as a playlist titled, "Jovenes rebeldes," at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLksj4IqGTCX346J7PzoYp9vYh2w1O1Loj.
This playlist also appears on other YouTube channels by linkage to the "naypasedeNash" channel.
The videos in this playlist, like all videos on YouTube, are MPEG4 files in MP4 format. Like all videos posted on YouTube, they can be downloaded with any of diverse costlessly-downloadable video downloader applications that can readily be found by Googling for "download," "video" and "YouTube." However, like all videos posted on YouTube, their size is not posted on YouTube.
Although the videos in this playlist can readily by watched on a mobile phone, a personal computer might serve better for downloading any of them.
720p viewer recordings of the entirety of YA as broadcast in 480p in France, beautifully dubbed in French, on the M6 network in from July 22 to September 9, 2001, and again from December 31, 2005, to January 7, 2006, are accessible in eight downloadable whole-episode Flash Video (FLV) files via the link at the bottom of this page, "YA 1-8 in French on M6 in 2005-06, 720p."
Each of these eight whole-episode FLV files is between 95 and 110 megabytes in size. To download, store, watch or otherwise manipulate any of them, a personal computer might serve better than a mobile phone.
An FLV file can be opened and watched with diverse software applications including VLC, Winamp, and the Clipchamp app included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows.
An FLV file can be converted into other formats that tend to take less time to format before each viewing than does an FLV file, but also tend to be larger (i.e., to require more bytes of memory) than does an FLV file. Other formats into which an FLV file can be converted include MP4, MOV, GIF and the AVI format used by the Windows Media Player included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows. Any of diverse video converter applications, such as CloudConvert, Moldavi Video Converter, Wondershare UniConverter, and VLC Media Playercan be used to convert an FLV file into an MP4, MOV, GIF or AVI file.
Both YA as broadcast in Spain by TeleMadrid in 2001 and YA as broadcast in France on M6 in 2001 and 2005-06, like versions of YA broadcast in several other countries, include footage omitted from YA as broadcast in the U.S. on The WB in 2000.
Most of this additional footage is in the even-numbered episodes, in part because in YA as broadcast in Spain and France, the "lake run" from episode 1, showing dozens of male and female Rawley students clad only in underwear running down a hill to a lake, was replayed, along with the song, "Six Pacs," by The Getaway People, at the start only of the odd-numbered episodes, thereby shortening the even-numbered episodes.
The WB's re-broadcasting of that "lake run" to preface every episode of YA as broadcast in the U.S.A. in 2000 -- which there is no reason to think that YA's creator, Steven Antin, had intended -- had been widely (and rightly) ridiculed by reviewers.
YA in English in high resolution
Two links at the bottom of this page -- "YA 1-5 whole in HD" and "YA 6-8 whole in HD"" -- jointly give access to eight downloadable 1080p Windows Media Video (WMV) file whole-episode English-language videos of YA as aired in France in 2001 and 2005, made by using a video editor to combine (1) the video of the 720p viewer recording of YA as dubbed in French and broadcast in France on M6 in 2001 and 2005-06 with (2) the English audio of YA as aired in the U.S. on The WB in 2000, stripped from the 240p viewer copy.
In these high-resolution English-language videos of YA, the audio of dialogue of footage broadcast in France but not in the U.S. remains in French, with English subtitles. Those subtitles are not literal translations of the French, but rather are informed by the English scripts of YA, including cut scenes, presented in this site's "Scripts of YA" section, which are not transcripts of YA as broadcast in the U.S., but rather are fan-edited versions of production scripts circulated to fans by people involved in YA's production.
Each of these eight whole episode files was made by conjoining about five smaller files that have been posted since 2010 on the "Rawley Revisited" YouTube channel, which is affiliated with this site, but have been inaccessible to the public since 2020, when YouTube blocked public access to them due to alleged infringement of Sony's copyright on YA.
Each of these eight whole-episode WMV files is between 1.6 and 1.85 gigabytes in size -- far larger than any other files to which this site gives access -- and should be downloaded only onto a personal computer, preferably a desktop, or onto cloud storage, not onto a mobile phone.
WMV files can be played on any Windows operating system, on Google Drive, or by downloading any several costless video converter applications, such as VLC Media Player.
Both for visual quality and for completeness, these eight WMV files seem to be the best available resource for watching YA in English.
"Fair use" claim (yet again):
No authorized recording or streaming of YA has ever been offered for sale. If any authorized recording or streaming of YA were available for purchase, this site, "Rawley Revisited," would tell readers how to purchase it; this site would neither provide a link to another site where copies of viewer recordings of YA can be viewed or downloaded, nor make copies of viewer recordings of YA available for downloading.
Moreover, YA seems not to have been broadcast or streamed anywhere in the world since around 2006. If YA were often broadcast or streamed, this site would urge readers to watch its next broadcast or streaming; this site would neither provide a link to another site where copies of viewer recordings of YA can be viewed or downloaded, nor make copies of viewer recordings of YA available for downloading.
This site, "Rawley Revisited," seeks, without monetary or material compensation, to enhance appreciation of YA as a work of dramatic art, which is possible only if is possible to watch YA. In the absence of any authorized recording or streaming or recent or expected future broadcast or streaming of YA, this site's posting of viewer recordings of YA and of links to other postings of viewer recordings of YA seems consistent with U.S. Code 17-107, which specifically permits as "fair use" the reproduction of copyrighted material "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research."
Ichabod Grubb
Posted March 2024
Last updated March 2024